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Feb 26, 2021 07:30 PM IST Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, public health experts, civil rights groups and immigrant activists have been complaining for months that the state isn't doing nearly enough to make sure its Black and Latino residents are inoculated.
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Feb 21, 2021 05:58 PM IST Sitharaman underlined that the nation's growing and aspiring needs and demands across the various sectors cannot be served just by the state government and central governments put together.
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Feb 18, 2021 11:04 PM IST Days of glacial weather have left at least 38 people dead nationwide, made many roads impassable, disrupted vaccine distribution and blanketed nearly three-quarters of the continental United States in snow.
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Feb 16, 2021 04:48 PM IST Texas is among several states that have decided to leave grocery and other essential workers out of the second phase of its vaccination effort, instead prioritising adults over 65 and people with chronic medical conditions.
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Feb 15, 2021 05:43 PM IST As of last week, only 35 percent healthcare workers and 13 percent frontline workers have got vaccinated against COVID-19 in Bengaluru urban district.
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Feb 14, 2021 01:46 PM IST Pakistan's decision to allow private sales of vaccine without a price cap in a lower-income country of 220 million people faces criticism.
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Feb 11, 2021 09:37 PM IST Senior epidemiologists, virologists, and infectious diseases experts have recommended that the unused vaccines be administered to the vulnerable population who are willing to get vaccinated.
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Feb 11, 2021 05:01 PM IST In the opinion piece published in American weekly magazine 'Newsweek;, Jaishankar elucidated how India is also leading the way in its response to other global challenges such as combating climate change, countering terrorism and embarking on the digital transformation.
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Feb 08, 2021 09:06 PM IST A small portion — about 11% — have received one or two shots of the vaccine, leaving the nation in a medical and cultural interregnum. Some of those with only one shot are in a precarious limbo, in states snarled over second-dose distribution.
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Feb 06, 2021 07:24 PM IST Under the nationwide mega vaccination drive launched on January 16, a total of 4,319 (53 per cent) health workers against a target of 8,117, were administered the shots at 81 centres across the city on day one.
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Jan 26, 2021 03:59 PM IST India has billed its coronavirus vaccine rollout as the world's biggest, but it must overcome logistics, hostile terrain, high temperatures and vaccine hesitancy to protect some 270 million people deemed vulnerable.
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Jan 25, 2021 04:16 PM IST Dr. Madhu Gupta says that drinking alcohol or smoking will interfere with the mechanism in which the antibodies are expected to be produced in the body after taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Jan 23, 2021 09:40 PM IST So far, 11 COVID-19 vaccine beneficiaries have required hospitalisation post-vaccination; the hospitalisation percentage against vaccination is currently 0.0007 percent in India.
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Jan 20, 2021 08:42 PM IST AIIMS Director Dr Guleria explained: “COVID-19 vaccines for children may come later...Bharat Biotech is trying to get approved a nasal vaccine. Such vaccine will be very easy to be given to children as it is a spray and not a jab and hence compliance is more.”
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Jan 20, 2021 04:15 PM IST The research team led by BioNTech Chief Executive Officer Ugur Sahin has said the result of the study proves it is very unlikely that the UK variant viruses will be able to dodge the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
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Jan 19, 2021 09:53 PM IST The SEC has reportedly refused to consider Bharat Biotech’s request and said it wants the Indian vaccine maker to first conduct the phase I trials and submit the immunogenicity data before moving on to the next stage.
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Jan 18, 2021 11:03 PM IST BJP leaders attacked TMC after Burdwan MLAs Rabindranath Chatterjee and Subhash Mondal were seen getting COVID-19 vaccine shots meant for healthcaren and frontline workers.
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Jan 17, 2021 08:02 PM IST The Health Ministry has informed that a total of 447 cases of adverse event following immunisation have been reported in India over the past two days, out of which only three required hospitalisation.
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Jan 17, 2021 01:23 PM IST A nurse in Manipur’s Ukhrul, Shimray Wungreichon couldn’t hug her three children for months, battled depression and anxiety as she worked in the local hospital. She hopes the vaccine is a turning point in the battle against a formidable foe.
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Jan 16, 2021 09:21 PM IST Another person who received COVID-19 vaccine shot in Delhi on January 16 developed severe adverse event following immunization and had to be referred to the AEFI centre.
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Jan 16, 2021 09:10 PM IST Sanitation worker Biranchi Naik was the first person to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus in Odisha.
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Jan 16, 2021 08:17 PM IST A total of 16,755 persons were involved in organising the coronavirus vaccination drive across 3,352 session sites.
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Jan 16, 2021 05:08 PM IST India started inoculating health workers and frontline workers against COVID-19. The world’s largest vaccination campaign kick-started on January 16. The central government has prepared a list of those who will not be given the vaccine during this programme, keeping in mind certain contraindications. Take a look…
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Jan 16, 2021 04:08 PM IST Both Pfizer and BioNTech are coordinating with the Norwegian drugs regulator to ascertain the cause behind the deaths of the 23 elderly persons and the former has said that the incident is not alarming and “in line with expectations."
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Jan 15, 2021 05:04 PM IST Mumbai has received over 1.39 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said.